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174806
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This paper explores the ‘Sinicization’ of Islam in Mainland China, focusing on Moon Lake Mosque (a historically significant mosque in Ningbo Zhejiang Province). Islam has a long history within China, but it is upon the CCP’s recent attempts to align Islam with ‘Chinese Socialist Characteristics’ that we explore here. Examining the propaganda around the mosque, we trace how tensions about Islam are both represented and (circum)navigated. These posters correlate aspects of Islam to the Socialist Core Values, but particular omissions of the original Qur’an secularize these passages in order to claim Communist Party moral guardianship and legitimacy. We demonstrate how the framing of this mosque elides its place in Ningbo’s past, and how the absence of representations of historic religious diversity exotifies the mosque and renders such diversity invisible. We argue that ultimately inherent in such Sinicization is the problematic question of what it means for religion to ‘be’ ‘Chinese’.
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161262
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Guided by Michel Foucault's concept of “pastoral power,” this article examines the ways in which contemporary discourses within official narratives in China portray the state in a paternal fashion to reinforce its legitimacy. Employing interdisciplinary approaches, this article explores a number of sites in Urumqi, the regional capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in order to map how a coherent official narrative of power and authority is created and reinforced across different spaces and texts. It demonstrates how both history and the present day are depicted in urban Xinjiang in order to portray the state in a pastoral role that legitimates its use of force, as well as emphasizing its core role in developing the region out of poverty and into “civilization.”
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096241
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This article reports on a survey examining sources of income and their effects on the mental health and subjective quality of life of residents in nine rural Russian regions. Using conventional measures of depressed mood and respondents' assessments of the quality of their lives in different domains, the authors find that the emergence of a mixed economy, that generates income from salary and wages and household enterprises, as well as government transfers, has produced differentiation in the subjective psychological as well as material quality of rural residents' lives.
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